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Subject: Re: CM9: something wrong with the GUI? (further comments )

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:53:19 09/22/02

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On September 22, 2002 at 18:45:29, Steven J. Brann wrote:

>On September 22, 2002 at 17:39:30, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On September 22, 2002 at 17:28:55, Steven J. Brann wrote:
>>
>>>On September 22, 2002 at 16:36:21, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 22, 2002 at 16:26:19, Steven J. Brann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 22, 2002 at 00:37:09, John Merlino wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>The path in cm.ini is:
>>>>>>>EGDBPath=C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Chessmaster 9000\EGDB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And the EGDB files are there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ok. I'm going to ask you to do the same steps that I asked Kurt to do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1) Set up a position with two kings and two pawns.
>>>>>>2) Open the "Coach" window and go to the Advice Tab. For every move in the list,
>>>>>>there should be either a "Black Mates in...", "White Mates in..." or "Game is
>>>>>>Drawn". If you see this, then the EGDBs are working properly.
>>>>>
>>>>>John, the advice tab in the coach window just gives the possible moves.  No mate
>>>>>in X is displayed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Confirms the fact that it's not working I guess.
>>>>>
>>>>>Steve
>>>>
>>>>Very odd. Have you changed ANYTHING about your installation? What installation
>>>>option did you choose? Did you download the EGDB generator? Did you ever edit
>>>>the cm.ini file to change the EGDBPath setting? And, as a last resort, have you
>>>>tried uninstalling and reinstalling?
>>>>
>>>>jm
>>>
>>>The only thing I changed in the install was to specify another drive partition
>>>other than the default which was F:\Gam\Program Files\Ubi Soft etc.  I did the
>>>complete install.
>>>
>>>I did download the EGDB generator but have not installed it.  I did not edit the
>>>EGDB path setting... just changed the ttable size for mentor from 21 to 128MB.
>>>
>>>I have not tried another install, but unless you can see anything else I could
>>>do, I will try that.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>Other than giving me the list of the files in the EGDB folder, so I can see what
>>files might be missing, I can't think of anything other than uninstalling and
>>reinstalling (which I know is annoying).
>>
>>Just FYI, since Kurt mentioned it, several people HAVE reported problems with
>>the EGDBs appearing to not work, but in every case it was either user error or
>>user confusion. I have no idea what it can be in this case, however....
>>
>>jm
>
>John,
>
>The EGDB folder contains 228 files, 188MB (197,673,444 bytes)
>
>Do I have everything?
>
>Steve

That is exactly right. I remain clueless.... :-(

When I asked you to enter a position with two kings and two (2) pawns, do you
remember what the position was? I would like to try it myself.

jm



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